School eResource Repository

Geography Resources

Lower Secondary Geography

Introduction to Geography webpages

National Geography standards index

Introduction to Geography videos

Water webpages

Concerns and threats of contamination on aquatic ecosystems

Current and future challenges for water resources management

How can human actions seriously affect water resources?

How climate change impacts our water

Hydrologic cycle

Keeping our water clean

Water agreements

Water governance & management in Singapore: innovation, implementation and laws

Will water always be available?

Water videos

Tropical rainforests and mangroves webpages

Tropical rainforests and mangroves videos

Sustainably build cities webpages

An intellectual capital approach to citizens’ quality of life in sustainable cities: a focus on Europe

Characteristics of city centres

Cities through the ages: one thing or many?

Environmental problems of modern cities

How do we define cities, towns, and rural areas?

Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Past, present and future: conserving the nation's built heritage

Rural to urban migration

Rural urban linkages

Singapore is building a 42,000-home eco ‘smart’ city

The 4 types of cities and how to prepare them for the future

Urban systems studies

Why linking rural and urban areas matters for development: a Ghana case study

Sustainably build cities videos

Housing webpages

43 different types of houses: explore the world’s diverse homes

Can Singapore's social housing keep up with changing times?

Designing our city: planning for a sustainable Singapore

Evolution of public housing in Singapore

Housing types in Singapore: a comprehensive guide

Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Public housing: a Singapore icon

Smart and sustainable living

Success criteria evaluation for a sustainable and affordable housing model: a case for improving household welfare in Nigeria cities

The health problems associated with poor housing and home conditions, inadequate water supplies, flooding, poor sanitation and water pollution

Types of housing in Singapore: public, hybrid and private properties

Upgrading informal settlements in an urbanizing world

Housing videos

Transport systems webpages

6 smart mobility solutions that are helping to reduce traffic congestion

An ecosystem approach to reducing congestion

Everything you need to know about the fastest-growing source of global emissions: transport

Five ways the world fights traffic congestion: five approaches that have been tried around the world and how they fared

How does environmental concern influence public acceptability of congestion charging? Evidence from Beijing

Improving Singapore’s land transport in 2019

Traffic congestion reconsidered

Traffic jams in Singapore: 5 possible causes

Traffic management systems market to witness steady growth of 5% during 2020-2026

Transport: how do we keep people moving?

US travel site ranks Singapore's public transport system best in the world

Transport systems videos

Geographical data skills and techniques webpages

Uses of thematic maps in Geography: these maps display data including population, rainfall, and epidemics

Geographical data skills and techniques videos

Reading beyond the lower secondary Geography textbooks (You may be required to login via NLB's MyLibraryID to access)

Don't know much about Geography: revised and updated edition audiobook

Forest: walking among trees

Geography by by Danny Dorling and Carl Lee

Geography by Alexander B. Murphy

Geography: a very short introduction

How to draw a map

Land of seven rivers: history of India's geography

Maphead: charting the wide, weird world of Geography wonks

Rainforest: dispatches from earth's most vital frontlines

Rivers of power: how a natural force raised kingdoms, destroyed civilizations, and shapes our world

Southeast asian migration: people on the move in search of work, refuge, and belonging

Sad topographies

The Geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape

The history of navigation

Water planet: the culture, politics, economics, and sustainability of water on earth

Upper Secondary Geography

Geography in everyday life cluster webpages

Geography in everyday life cluster videos

Tourism cluster webpages

Changing pattern and nature of tourism: factors affecting the growth and nature of tourism

How does the nature of tourism vary from place to place?

Tourism cluster videos

Climate cluster webpages

Consumption behavior and trends: understanding the shift required towards healthy, sustainable and enjoyable diets

Covid-19 will magnify food shortage in Africa

Commentary: how prepared is Singapore for the next flash flood?

Production trends of food crops: opportunities, challenges and prospects to improve Tanzanian rural livelihoods

Strategies to overcome food shortages

The changing face of global eating patterns

The future of food and agriculture: trends and challenges

Tropical storms

Will technology prevent the next food shortage crisis?

Climate cluster videos

Tectonics cluster webpages

Tectonic hazards

Tectonics cluster videos

Reading beyond the upper secondary Geography textbooks (You may be required to login via NLB's MyLibraryID to access)

An introduction to the Geography of tourism

Answers to questions you've never asked: explaining the "what if" in Science, Geography, and the absurd

Biogeography: an ecological and evolutionary approach

Climate change: a beginner's guide

Earthquake prediction: dawn of the new seismology

Empty planet: the shock of global population decline

Extreme weather: a guide to surviving flash floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves, snowstorms, tsunamis, and other natural disasters

Food: the new gold

Hunger: the oldest problem

Investigating plate tectonics, earthquakes, and volcanoes

Landscapes and geomorphology: a very short introduction

Mountains: a very short introduction

National Geographic extreme weather survival guide: understand, prepare, survive, recover

Overcrowded world? Global population and international migration

Planet earth: a beginner's guide

Savannas: a very short introduction

The fate of food: what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world

The global warming survival kit: the must-have guide to overcoming extreme weather, power cuts, food shortages and other climate change disasters

The great disruption: how the climate crisis will transform the global economy

The human tide: how population shaped the modern world audiobook

The human tide: how population shaped the modern world e-book

The new ocean: the fate of life in a changing seanational

Waste: uncovering the global food scandal